percolating up through the courts already going back to 1950 other cases of the naacp legal and education defense fund that thurgood marshall is actually bringing. and he's building kind of brick by brick, block by block. thurgood marshall not yet a justice of the supreme court, he's making the case that plessy v. ferguson, which defined the acceptability of separate but equal. they're making a case to the naacp that this cannot remain the law of the land. and it's pretty clear that the case that is going to become a very common for important one for the court is actually the year that rehnquist is there is brown v. board of education. some assurance that in fact to be the case that strikes the doctrine down. very, very important in a unanimous decision of the supreme court. so rehnquist is part of the role of the clerk is to offer his advice and opinions to his boss about these cases. so rehnquist writes a memo about brown v. board of education and he basically says that plessy should stand. rehnquist offers this memo, gives it to jackie. jackson doesn't -- i'm sure jackson read the memo, but he